Dice Shame - 106 | 'Return to Haunt'

Episode Date: October 21, 2021

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Let's meet them in battle, Doran. Good job, brother. Nice one, Krayloff. Kieran scowls at him in his jaunty hat. Almost got to attack, but then Jack came out of nowhere. Take another shot, will you? What I mean, you don't know what an outfit? We'll talk after.

Pincushion Jack. But I did nothing. I did nothing to you. Ugh. He abandoned us. Run away. Right beside you, Red. Doran is going to dash right up into the face of the hunt lord.

but I've already used my action search, so I'm just there. Hey! Didn't think this one through. Welcome back to Dice Shame. Episode 106, Return to Haunt. MVP this week goes to Samuel Corkill, the freshest member of our Facebook group, and who's also found us on Discord. You've made it through the internet, found us, Samuel, and this is how we thank you.

100,000 downloads. That's right. Despite passing it a few weeks back, we wanted to take a moment and thank each and every one of you for listening. It's been an amazing journey so far, and we can't wait to see how far we'll take it. Please consider recommending us to a friend or leaving us a review, and sincerely, thank you. Yeah, thank you. All right, shall we do this? Yeah, let's get down a business. So as part of my job in the lab, I interact pretty closely with some students. I'm a clinical educator. So I get to know a couple new learners every few weeks.

And over the course of the time that I spend with them, I end up asking them a little bit about their lives. You know, they're pretty young. They're like four. They're like 24 years old. They're like just learning how to walk. What do I do with this, Joe? When they have to go to the bathroom, they just tug on their penises.

This is Joe. Do. Well, I ask them, like, you know, what are you up to this weekend? Oh, cool. Where do you work and whatever? And they're like part-time retail or waitstaff or like lab assistant or whatever. But then some of them have never had an actual job before ever in their whole lives.

How does that work? I guess it's a thing, right? I don't know. My parents encouraged my brother and I to get jobs in high school basically like maybe even a little bit too soon. I think there's a legal age and I think my mom. Like six? No. Like maybe 14 or something. I had my first, like, serious part-time job. I was working at a bakery in town. Did you guys... So what was your first job? Oh, wow.

I think mine was 15, and it was Alexander's Music Studios. And it was right after. I think Alex worked there, too, right? You're going to take mine. You took mine. Yeah, but my 15 is three years after you were 15. So we both had the same job just three years. Alex was there first. Did you like it? I did, yeah. What did you do there? Well, let Alex talk. No, you go ahead.

You tell them all about what we did. You don't remember, do you? Of course I remember. It's been too many years of... I remember, too. I went to Alexander Music Studios and you guys were always there. Alexander's Music Studios, yeah, they taught piano lessons, guitar lessons, vocal lessons, and things like that. So they needed someone to charge payments to, you know...

It's working the front desk. Answer the phone. The front desk, basically. Somebody who would take the checks for... the student's lessons. Gotcha. Okay. As a man named Alex, did you enjoy working at a place that had your namesake?

I loved it, actually. I always thought it was so wild because people would come in. This is my music studio. Yeah, people would come in and say, oh, is this yours? And I'd say, yeah. It is. You'd lie. You'd lie.

This fucking 16-year-old kid, I'm Alexander. No, I would say, no, it was originally James Alexander. Yeah. through a long line of... It's actually interesting because Alex and I have had the same... I followed in his footsteps, I guess, literally,

because he worked at Alexander's music studios and then I worked at Alexander's music studios. Oh. And then he worked at Blockbuster Video and then I worked at Blockbuster Video. Which was right next door. It's still figuratively unless you're walking directly behind him.

No, I mean, it was literally I was going in the same position as him, right? Yeah, no, that's literal. Yeah. It's still figurative. Literally? No. Literative.

Oh, you're right. know it is figuratively. All right, regardless, the point is that I also, I worked directly after Alex, although we never worked at the same Blockbuster store. He literally followed in my footsteps. I think what they're saying is this metaphor literally applies right now. It does. Or maybe it's illiterate?

And Justin, did you say that you worked there too, or you just were there as a patron? No, I was learning. I was learning the... As a patient? I was a patient. I was a music patient. I mean, you've got to be very patient. Kind of.

Actually, I mean, it wasn't a music therapy clinic, but those are things. You weren't very patient. I wasn't. What was your first job? I had the classic paper route. Oh, yeah. Waking up at 6 in the morning on a Sunday and getting out at 7.30. Did you have fit?

No, you drove. My mom drove me. My mom made it so much easier that it could have been. Oh, God. There were some days where there were like 400 newspapers and we'd spend at least two hours just folding them and tying them up, putting them into bags, and that took up the huge process.

Throwing them on the lawn was like 10% of the job. Yeah. I just threw them on the lawn. I'm realizing that's probably why I'd stay as a day. And then you'd have to go and collect. I remember you'd go and be like, hi. Really? News advertiser.

Oh, yeah. And there was no, because it was a free newspaper, right? So people didn't have to pay. That's crazy. You'd be like, I'm taking donations for news advertiser. I remember that. I never did it myself, but Tommy did. And I remember going door to door with him.

You know, it's funny, actually? Because, you know, like, as a parent, you know, you do that. You tell those kids to fuck off. No, but you do that for your kid. I'm not paying your news advertising fee. Of course you would. The funniest thing, though, is that I also did that a lot. Paper roots?

A paper route. But I didn't have my own paper route. You just. I would go down to my friend, Kyle's house and he had a paper route. You'd help him out. And he'd be like, yo, I got to do this. Help me. And we'd just hang out and I'd just have fucking

100,000 papers or whatever. And then we'd go and deliver them. Like it was some sort of fun. And do you think I ever got paid? No dollars. Yeah, we all had friends who did paper routes. Either you did one or you had friends that did one in the suburbs. I definitely remember Chris helping me a couple

times. Yeah. I helped Tommy. Alex helped Kyle. Chris helped you. We all had paper routes. That sounds like a gang of child labor. I mean, it really was. It's 100% because they didn't pay you unless you collected the fees, which were optional. You know, so like the people would 100% could be like, no, no, I'm good this month. And you're like, oh, okay.

It's a racket. Did people want these newspapers? No, I don't think so. No. I mean, even at that point, print media was dying. Flyers, right? Like ads. No, no.

These were, there were like actual quality journalism contained. It broke the story on. Breaking child labor In this very newspaper Hey they're talking about us That's great Stories created by and broken by the same newspaper Rob would you do?

What was your first? It was in Saskatchewan, right? I don't remember if it was my first There was, yeah, I mean a significant high school job Was working at Dairy Queen for sure Nice Yeah, we all had a friend that worked at Dairy Queen as well. That was Rob.

Frob. Did a stint at Staples for a while. I worked at a gas station for a while. I can see that. Gas station, Rob. I can't see that one. I can see all the others. The gas station one was in university. It was really great because I listened to just audiobooks in my headphones on was, I don't know. Oh, nice.

iPods were a thing, and so I was listening to an audio book. They still are. But I mean, they weren't for my whole life. There was a period where they weren't. Well, they weren't invented yet, Rob. Our iPod's still a thing, though? I think working at a gas station would not be as fun if you couldn't just zone out and listen to the... It's true.

Very true. The trials and tribulations of Rincewind the Wizard or whatever. And... I agree. Hi, my name is Justin James. And audiobooks are a big part of mine. I saved Rob's life. I saved Rob.

Single-handedly. He would have poured that gasoline all over himself. When you buy an audio book, you don't have to deliver it. You don't have to have child laborers deliver that book. Yeah. See this man working in a gas station? But I think there's something really interesting about the range of stuff.

So I had Alexander's Music Studio, Blockbuster, a hotel, like the front desk of a hotel, discount car and truck rental, and then Aquarian, a water cooler company. Those were sort of my five. Justin, what were your first five? What were your first five weirdest job? Let's see. I did paper route, Moors, clothing for men. Hey, that's right.

You and I both did that. Yeah, that's right. Oh, yeah, I followed in Europe footsteps. I forgot about that. It's like they all lived in the same neighborhood or something. We actually didn't. That's the weird thing. Okay, before you continue, you know what's crazy?

What's that? I went into Moors just the other day for a tax fitting. Yeah. And I said to the lady that was held me, I said, oh, I used to work here, blah, a lot. And she's like, oh, really? Do you know so-and-so? I said, no, I was a while ago.

Oh, when did you work here? I was like, 20 years ago? Oh, no. I was like, oh, no. Wow, you're getting old. Holy, fuck. That's awesome. Sorry, continue, Justin.

You waited a bit. Well, I had jobs in university. I had like summer jobs. I was a server at Safari Bar and Grill in Ajax. Right. And I was a tour guide in Montreal. all and um oh that's right with eric yep with eric and then i also i then i was a music therapist and then narrator right it's interesting how many of our jobs and we've very clearly obviously connected it

already came from like friends or family you know what i mean because like chris got you the serving job eric got you the oh you know Alex obviously got me my first two jobs oh yeah it's just funny that there's like a crossover Alex what about you first five okay so yeah there was Alexander's music studios. Then there was a time. I'm trying to think of what I did after that. I was cutting grass for some time. It was like 20 years ago. And then I did work at a candy packaging factory. Oh yeah. I remember that. What kind of candy? Mike and Ikes, a lot of stuff you see in like Walmart. You stole a bunch. No, I didn't. Never stole anything. What are they going to do? They're going to track you down? What's the statute of limitations It was 20 years ago, Alex.

Listen, you don't want to get in the Mike and Ike cartel. Maybe the odd, like, candy here. Hey, Spike, we got a lead on that candy that went missing 20 years ago. I was listening to this podcast. I'm going to stake out his place at Oscew. Fire up the car. I was in the band at that time,

and Harlan and Justin were both in that band as well. Man, we have crossed a lot of paths, haven't we? You guys are some history. So I was in this band, and I was in on a Friday and I said it was like 3 o'clock in the afternoon, whatever, and I worked till 5,

and the boss comes up, and he's just like lazy old guy and just he was a jerk all the time, just a jerk, just the way he spoke to people, he was a jerk. Anyways, he says, he comes up to me, he says, yeah, you need to come in on Saturday. And I said, oh, well, I can't

because I've got this gig, and we're going all the way to like so-and-so place, and I can't work at all. I can work next weekend if you want. Now I need you to come in or, you know, you can just accept that maybe this isn't for you. I, like, literally dropped what I was doing. And I'm not kidding. Like, when I say dropped.

I mean, literally dropped, not figuratively. I dropped the candy bag that I was holding. And I said, okay. And I walked at the door. And I was like, okay. Yeah. Screw you. I thought to myself, fuck this shit.

Wow. I quit discount the exact same way. They hired me on with a beard. Yeah. and I worked there for eight months and for some reason the regional manager came in one day who I've met many times

and he came in and he was in a pissy mood I remember this guy always had a bad streak and he looked at it and he's like no no more and just like gesture to his face like as if to signal my he goes go home and shave

I was like you want me to shave my beard he's like yes now I'm like you want me to leave like it's mid shift and I was like and I told him I was like if I go home I'm not coming back he was like that's your decision

I just never went back How fucked up is capitalism that, like, junior managers of shitty little places are like, no, no, no, I get to make personal decisions about you now. No, I don't like those earrings and shave that face and change your hair color and no tattoos. I need you to come out on days that you're not supposed to work anyways. That's some bullshit. For real. Big yikes.

What about you, Rob? I mean, so I think I got three there. And I think the, so Dairy Queen and Staples and the gas station, I was really lucky, though, in high school. there's a nitrogen fertilizer plant that had a deal with the high school to hire some summer students. So I did think the summer between grade 11 and grade 12 and the summer after grade 12. I worked at this nitrogen fertilizer plant in their stores. And so like handing out parts and stuff to people and mowing lawns. It was pretty sweet.

And it was, you know, in one of the super cool places where everything can kill you if you look at it wrong. And it was really neat. And that's when you fell in love with engineering. Pretty much. And then I went to become a chemical engineer at school. And I came back and worked in a different job at that facility because I knew the people there and got to do some engineering stuff there. And yeah, that I moved out east and became a consultant. There's a bonus. No, that's six. Deleted. Didn't happen. Didn't happen. Didn't happen. You're not a consultant. Sorry. Rob goes to work on Monday. What are you doing here? You've never worked here. Who are you? Oh, yeah, it just gets deleted. It's a wonderful life type shit. Oh, no. Don't get sex. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe, Queen Joe, what are the five? I started with a berry farm. That's going to be your novel. It started with a berry farm. The Joe Fallick story. I was nine years old. Child labor again. I think it was a combination of child labor and free babysitting.

Maybe in the summertime. My parents would drop us off. We would pick berries all day long. It wasn't actually a job. They were just babysitting. babysitting you, and they're like, where's my daughter? Oh, she's out in the field picking bears. I saved up enough money for a plane ticket, and I flew to Winnipeg by myself when I was nine years old to visit with my cousin. My brother did it too, the summer before me.

I was like, why Winnipeg? So that was like the whole goal. It was like work all summer, nine year old, and save up enough money and fly by yourself on an airplane to go to a different province. That's amazing. Wow. After that, I did babysitting, as many adolescents do. Oh, yeah, yeah. And I did that before and after school every day for a long time.

And then I worked in the bakery, which was my first, like, official, actual job with a paycheck. You know what I mean? So that was a teeny, tiny little bakery. I lived in a rural town in Ontario, so there's just the one bakery in town when I was living there. That was cool, Baker-Bob's. Was he holding lots of your money and trust? No, I don't know what that means. All the baker's, all the bakers.

Oh, from our show. That's our show, darling. I don't know if you remember this dice shame. The thing that we're doing eventually. I was a camp counselor. Oh, that's right. You're a camp counselor. I was a camp counselor for a couple summers.

That's cool. That's the first one where I'm like, oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Like shouting at 80, 12-year-old. trying to get them to hit each other with wet sponges. Actually, that didn't take much encouragement. I worked at Tim Hortons as a night baker doing the 4 a.m. shift. Night baker.

And I was a waitress. Or actually, before I was a waitress, I worked in the back. So it was like a line cook at a vegan restaurant. Oh. That's my five. And that's where you decided how disgusting it was and you decided to eat meat, right? 11 years later. Yes.

I just need more blood in my life. and so I took a real hard turning. That's my five. Those are the jobs that define us. Did you do five, Harley? Yeah. Stole half of Alex's and half of Justin's. No, three to five were originals, I think.

No one else worked at a water cooler company. That takes real guts. And then I did that for like 10 years. And then I did that for like 10 years. And here we are all individual people pretending to be. be other individual people with very different jobs. That's right. Speaking up, pretending

to do a different job. Let's play some D&D. Yeah. It's mid-combat, guys. Picture mist all over the place. Snow-capped burial mounds. We've got everyone's favorite undead hunters. Let's get right down to business.

Okay, Kralath, it's your turn. Let's meet them in battle, Doren. Of course, brother. And Kralov is going to run towards the one that Scriven has been attacking. Yeah. And he's going to call upon Kellenvore for some added inspiration. So I'm going to cast Guiding Bolt as a level three.

Yeah. Excellent. That is a 17 to hit. That hits. Yeah. He's going to take a few D6s of damage. It just says a few, so I don't know what that is. Just roll a bunch.

Three to five, D.C.? Five or six, D.C. Pick however many you're feeling that day. Keep picking up dice till your. GM looks at you funny and says, put some of those back. Ooh, all right. It's going to take 18, 21,

27 points of radiant damage. Oh. As this bolt of light blasts into him. And gives advantage to whoever attacks next. Well, unfortunately, the corpse falls to the snow.

I'm fine with that too. Nice one, Krayloff. Thanks. There's still three more. Good job. Brother. No, I'm done. Okay. Good luck, guys.

As a bonus action, I'm going to move my scythe 20 feet towards the dude to the northeast. Yeah, sounds good. All three of these hunt lords take shots at you on the ridge there, Krayloff. Show me what you got. Two shot. Yep, they all miss you. Nice. Red.

What do you do? Red pulls back an arrow, and he fires it. at the one that Scriven has been attacking. Yeah, the one to the northwest. Correct. That is a, oh, 16 hit. Yeah, you hit. Nice.

Woo. 27 damage. Excellent. And I will fire again. 17 hit. Yep. Hey. 20 damage.

Great job. Okay. Two arrows just pierce his chest. This corpse still stands. Doran, it's your turn. No, and Scriven wants to attack. Oh, Scriven. If you don't mind.

Oh, no. Oh, no. What does your dumb bird do? Damn it, scraven. All right, Doran. No, not the goat. No, no, leave it alone. No, put the bone down.

Go for the... Jack's dying. No, that's Jack. My friend. The elf. What I mean? You don't know what an elf is... We'll talk after.

I'm this friend. I'm going to use my commander's strike and direct Red to take another attack. Go for a red. Take another. shot, will you? Yeah. And you're going to add two to the damage if you hit. Right out, bud! Oh, 21. Yep.

Nice. Same target. Nice. 18 damage. Great job. What else are you going to do, Doren? Doran's going to run up next to Kralath and I'm going to pull out my crossbow and just attack the one to the north-west of me. Cool, yeah. The one that's Scriven's fighting. Yeah, a 20 to hit? Yep.

Yeah, well done. Doing six points of damage. Finally hitting with your crossbow. Yeah. End of my turn. All right. Thank you. Jack, what do you do?

Pincush and Jack turns Dizan's wand onto himself and turns invisible. Mm. And shuffles towards the center of the plinth in the middle here to get a more comfortable away from all the edges and just kind of reassesses the situation, takes a minute to try and size these folks up and down, see if there's anything new he can deduce about them since the last time we fought the hunt lords. They certainly seem to be getting stronger, and that's very worrying. Yeah, you can roll an intelligence check if you want. I'd love to.

Now that you've got a little bit of a cushion of self-preservation there between you and death. Yeah. You can roll an arcana check. 20. Nice. You can identify the spells shield, counterspell, misty step. It definitely seems like you can confirm. these undead hunt lords are gathering not just fortitude, but arcane abilities.

They are picking up maybe abilities from previous bodies that they're inhabiting. Oh, interesting. Okay. Yeah, and then Jack's sort of sizing up the situation trying to figure out what his next move is. Okay. It's the hunt lord's turns. The hunt lord's stalk ever closer. Good. One of them crests the hill up towards you Kralov, pulling out its long sword and swiping at you twice. Natural one. Oh. And an 18, which misses.

Excellent. The other two fire arrows at you, Doran. 16 to hit you, misses. 16 does. Four arrows just miss you. Aha. And they stalk closer. Krayloth, it's your turn.

Red, how much have you damaged this one? I don't know, but he only needs a couple hits more. Then I'm going to cast Sacred Flame. It's a saving throw. It's a 17. Oh, he's good. Damn. So then I'm going to move my scythe another 20 feet, and I've got two rounds left on it.

Excellent. The hunt lord beside you, Kralov, in retaliation, swings his long sword again. And that's a tend to hit. Slank, clank, clank, clank. Red. Red is going to attack the one that's standing in front of his friend. With a... Oh, 24.

Nice. Twenty-one damage. Mm-hmm. And again, oh, no, 14 to hit. Damn. No, you miss. It's a bonus action. I spit at him.

You can have a Scriven attack. Oh, Scriven. Scriven. Scriven, it's your time. Scriven, screve, screve, screve. He actually can't get there. He moves 60 feet, but that's about it. Scrieving flies over.

Doran. I'm just going to attack this one in front of me here. Do it. Stop attacking, my friend, with a 25. Yep. Doing only eight damage, though. Ooh. I'll attack again with 23 to hit.

Yep. Doing... Here it goes. Nineteen damage. There you go. Hey. Doren, you claim your second hunt. Come on, you weak bastard.

Get over here if you're not afraid of us. Good one, Doran. Trying to get him to cross. Call him a scallywag. He responds by trying to shoot you and misses. Dang, those die, Joe. I know, I can't roll anything higher than a seven. Good.

Jack, it's your turn. Jack sends a command to Kieran to sort of back up Doran's play. Whoever he's attacking next, he'll have a little help from the hound. And then he extends his hand at the Hunt Lord approaching and launches fire that just materialize. is in the air from the invisibility in front of them trying to wallop this one back to the other world. 16. 16 hits?

Yeah. That's to the one that's just standing opposite Doran, like across the trench. For five whole fire damage. Woo! Jack, you shouldn't have. You know, I'm wavering at the edge of my magical brink here. Still a little terrified, despite the fact, Ork Splitters, cries of go get them are helpful. And when you say that Kieran

runs over to help. He's going to have to be within melee range of the enemy, right? Yeah. So I think he's trying to get close enough to where Doran's going to be, I think, is the intention. Yeah. Cool. Jack, you're just going to continue hunkering invisibly between two slabs of marble? Yeah, I think so, yep. I think that's a good call. I'm a pin cushion already. How many hit points do you have? 20-ish, 22, maybe 21, somewhere in there. Great. Not enough. Can I have more? It is the hunt lord's turn.

The hunt lord that's down in the trench moves closer and I don't think can really see anyone up there. So I think he's going to... Dance. Da-do-da-da-da-d-d-d-dance. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-dha. Nothing left for me to do, but... Misty step is a bonus action. Sounds like a dance.

Do the Misty Step. So he's going to... Misty step up onto the hill. Now he's directly beside Kieran and Jack, though he cannot see Jack. And I think he's going to try to kill your dog. The scoundrel. Well, we've already established, you know, we understand that people that try to kill dogs are the bad guys. That's right.

Right. Paul Patrol. Natural one. Hey! Kieran scowls at him in his jaunty hat. I should really like find his AC before I get too cocky about it. he's 12. All right, he's fine.

And skips out of the way his little boots. Well, he's going to try again. So don't get too excited about it. Pop patrol, par patrol. 14 to hit. You'll be here on the dot. Six slashing damage. Oh.

So Kieran has five hit points and he disappears in a poof of celestial dust. The other hunt lord fires two arrows at Kraloth and bedeked in his golden armor. Blinky blee, blink. Man, I cannot hit you. 19. No. Both of the arrows miss. Krayloff, it's your turn.

Okay, I'm going to move my scythe. The sithe hasn't done anything. All right. It's closing in. The sith is closing in, people. It's just slowly floating after everybody. Floating back and forth. I'm coming.

Drifting around. And Kralov is going to step towards this hunt lord that just killed Kieran. and he's going to try to get it off balance and off step so that Red can get a good shot on it. So I'm going to use the help action to do that. Cool. Okay. So that gives you advantage, Red.

Cool. Kralath, it's going to make an attack against you with its long sword as one of its legendary actions. But I did nothing. I did nothing to you. And I miss with a 12. Nice. It's trash.

All right, I'm shaming this dice. Shame, shame, shame. I think I've used this dice from the very beginning. It's pink on one side. It's purple on the other side. It's got silver numbers and it is going in the bin. Shame on you. Oh, to the jar.

Red. All right, I'm going to attack. That would be a natural 20. Whoa! Natural 20. I love it. 25 damage. Mm-hmm.

Nice. Oh, 23 to hit. Yep. 28 damage. Nice. And Scriven. Oh, who could forget? Screven flies over and...

Screeze out of the night. He's angry. He's angry that Kieran got bitten. He got a natural one and then a 17. So he does hit once. 17 hits. Yeah, that's a 10 damage. Great.

Doran, what do you do? Doran charges over and attacks the hunt lord that's engaged with Kraloth. And he's going to swing his axe at. the hunt lord hopefully hitting with a 15 yep nice and doing 19 points of damage excellent and swinging back around again with a 22 doing 15 more points of damage nice great job jack it's your turn your friends are all like within arms reach of you pretty much fighting this creature and like pieces of flesh are just falling off as Doran's hacking at it with his axe. Where the hell did Jack go? He abandoned us. Run away. I'm right behind you. I say as I take a step

back to get away, I roll to hit this thing with a firebolt, a 27. Yeah. Ooh, I like it. I like it a lot. And then rolls seven damage. Jack, you set it aflame with this firebolt and the creature, crumples in the ground. Beautiful. Emitting a terrible putrid smell. Nice. There's one hunt lord remaining. We got this.

And I quickly snatch up Kieran's hat and boots and grab them from the snow. Oh, they were real. Everything else about him, but those were real. Spent time just to make sure they don't get burned up. The remaining hunt lord steps back 30 feet and fires two arrows at U. Red. 24 to hit. Yeah, that hits. That's three piercing damage.

14 to hit. Miss. Kralath. Well, first he's going to move his scythe 20 feet and it just fades into nothingness. No. Almost got to attack, but then Jack came out of nowhere. And then Kralath is going to step to the edge so that he can still see this abomination. And he is going to cast Sacred Flame.

Decks save, eight. Hey, all right, and I get to do my damage. Ooh, 17 points of damage, radiant. Nice. Excellent. Red. I'm not happy that this guy tried to attack me. I'm going to attack him back.

I would say he successfully attacked you. No, with a 10. Nope. Well, that's a natural one. No. Both of my arrows, I'm like flummoxed. I'm like, how could he roll? Well, and he's slowly getting obscured in this mist.

Don't let him get away. Continually just rolls over him. I think Red also moves back with the others. He's going to run back to the center. Okay. Scriven. Scriven does not have enough movement to get over there, but he'll try. Bless your heart, Scriven.

Doran is going to dash. Yeah, Doren, you run. Right up into the face of the hunt lord, but I've already used my action search, so I'm just there. Hey! Didn't think this one through. Well, you know what? I'll take my lumps if it means not letting him escape, so. Yeah, exactly.

Well, you think you're going to run away from us now? Now that we've got you on the run? The creature hacks at you with his long sword in response. Ooh, with a 25. And that hits. Take 11 slashing damage. That's a really good idea. You're up, Jack.

Jack comes around to the front side of the ledge, getting this disappearing hunt lord in his sights and draws the ill run in front of him, sending another bolt of fire towards the jerk. Marble 26 And it does 15 damage Nice job

Doren the creature continues to try To hit you with his long sword Making these wild swings Feels like Because of its undead body It's kind of off balance Natural One

And But before you do that I was going to use my repose Do it, yeah Natural One As a reaction to the natural one And so I'm going to add 2 to the damage

going to hit with a 24. Yeah. And that's going to be total damage of 13. Excellent. I feel like he lunged out at you wildly and you kind of spun underneath his sword and just buried orc splitter in between his ribs. How are you like that?

But you're too close to him now. Yeah. And with a 26, he gets you with a long sword. Maximum damage. Oh, no. 14. Crayloth, it's your turn. Krayloff is going to run as close as he can.

So, like, 10 feet away from the hunt lord? Yeah, about 10 feet away. And he's going to just gang up on this guy as well, casting Sacred Flame. Cool. So that's a reflex save or a... Another eight. 13 points of damage. Hey.

Red. Red is going to attack. He's real angry that this guy made a miss. And he's going to hit with a 19. Yep. 27 damage. Excellent. Now he's going to attack again.

With a 20, dirty. 22 damage. Now who's on the run? And the arrow sings past Doran's head and hits the creature directly in the chest. It falls over once again into the stillness of death. That's right, you bastards! Jack, where are you? Right beside you, Red.

Look at that. Doren kind of turns around and gives Krala the high five. Good job, everyone. I want to take a look at these, and Kralov is going to summon Captain Trenneros once more. And he's going to kneel down over one of these bodies. And he's going to say, do you have any idea why these things keep coming back, Captain? Captain Tranieros puts a hand on your shoulder, and he drags you roughly from your feet. Look out!

The corpse that you're kneeling over begins to move. Tendrils of darkness seep out of the ground, wrapping around the body of the Huntler, consuming it. You hear a bone snap, a rotten jet of fluid juts out, and then the body is gone, lost to shadows underneath the lip of the spirit mound. Barely a heartbeat later, an eruption of earth, and another body pulls itself out of the ground, crawling. This one is all dry sinew and bones, tangled in the remains of a burial shroud. Around its neck, a totem of some kind. and as it stands in its hand a carved javelin. A pinprick of light grows in the dry eye sockets

from nothing of violet inferno in seconds. It clenches and unclenches its skeletal fist and wisps of darkness intertwined between the bones of its hand, rendering it more corporeal, filling in the gaps where the flesh should be. The skeleton seems to substantiate with resists. writhing darkness. The hunt lord's searing eyes find your face, Jack, to spite your invisibility.

Severed from vengeance. Thank you. Servant. And then reaching down towards the ground, a jet of darkness leaps from his hand and pierces the spirit now, releasing a spray of snow and dirt. The shadow buries itself into the earth. earth as the bones of a creature emerges, an avian skull with a yellowed beak, wings webbed with tendrils of dark mist, the animated corpse of a griffin. The hunt lord climbs astride its new

mount and takes to the air, wheeling in the darkness, until it's gone. That can't be good. Thank you once again to our wonderful Patreon supporters, Christopher Ryan Evans, Merlin, Mitchell Cadwell, Ashley and J.B, Colin Burkart, Breanna and Michael Weber, Daniel, Doug, Jessica Orrett, Jonah Goldman, Katie Orrett, and Maori Kineski. See you soon. So I'm a big confused.

Was that a bad, hot lord, that came back to life? some reason? I mean. Or was that some other... No, this one's cut in. No, that was a good Hun Lord. Well, you said Honlord, but I don't know if you meant Hon. I'm not.

I actually really like this previous one where we talk about wolves and then Alex talks about getting high and thinking he hears a coyote. one time. But I have to give you so much shit about seeing a real wolf. He's like, I heard a thing, and I was stoned, and I ran. It's a very, very endearing introduction. Thank you from Vin on shit. Let's try it again.